Technology Delivers Meat and Protein Choices
The “meatless revolution” is underway, according to the Wall Street Journal—but in this supposed upheaval, people aren’t quitting meat in the conventional sense...
Carol Keiser
Trade Critical for US Beef Producers
Beef exports from the United States are doing well recently (see article) - but in the current political atmosphere of 2018 there's a sense of unpredictability ...
All Eyes on South Korea
The world will look to South Korea this month as speed skaters, ski jumpers, and bobsled teams fight for gold, silver, and bronze in the 2018 Winter Olympic Gam...
Trade: My Cuban Affair
As the characters in Nelson DeMille’s exciting new novel tour Cuba, they visit a farm near Havana. “A nice older gentleman explained, in Spanish, all the stride...
The ABCs of Toxic Reporting
Eldon and Regina Roth didn’t start Beef Products Inc. because they wanted to win a major libel settlement. Like other entrepreneurs, they planned to make an hon...
Beef Into China: Unprecedented Opportunity With Excellent Potential
The average American eats about 55 pounds of beef per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Imagine if the average Chinese person were to co...
Choosing the Right US Secretary of Agriculture Is Getting the Attention It Requires
Prediction: Nobody will be talking about the Trump administration’s lack of an agriculture secretary a month or two from now. Instead, we’ll be amazed at how...
Making A Best-Case “Pivot To Trade” Scenario for Trump
Donald Trump sounds like a protectionist. In his speech to the New York Economic Club last week, he condemned “these terrible trade deals,” by which he meant mo...
Zika is Coming
Americans can’t act fast enough to defend themselves against the Zika virus—and for me, it’s about to get personal. My daughter is coming to visit me in Flor...
We Must Go on the Offense and Defeat Zika With Technology
It’s worse than we had feared. That’s what public-health officials confessed this week about the Zika virus. “Everything we look at with this virus seems ...
Carol Keiser
Rancher, Florida & Indiana, USA
Carol Keiser-Long established and currently manages C-BAR Cattle Company, feeding 5,000 to 6,000 head of cattle in Kansas, Nebraska and Western Illinois. As an agriculture advocate at the state and national level, she is focused on programs and hands on opportunities that expose young women to careers in food and agriculture. Carol volunteers as a board member for the Global Farmer Network and is the current Treasurer for the organization. She also provides leadership to numerous organizations including the Farm Foundation, National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and US Premium Beef. With a degree in Animal Science form the University of Illinois, Carol has been recognized for Distinguished Service to the University and the school’s College of Agriculture, Conservation and Environmental Services.